The tale of ill-fated Dido and her Aeneas, as recounted by Virgil, fascinated the 18th century English, who saw it as relevant to the royal machinations they had experienced over the previous hundred years. The glorious economy of Purcell's version was never matched, but numerous versions of the setting by famed Italian librettist Pietro Metastasio were performed on London stages. Handel gets top billing in the graphics here, but in fact this Didone Abbandonata is a work by the Italian composer Leonardo Vinci, who died at ...
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The tale of ill-fated Dido and her Aeneas, as recounted by Virgil, fascinated the 18th century English, who saw it as relevant to the royal machinations they had experienced over the previous hundred years. The glorious economy of Purcell's version was never matched, but numerous versions of the setting by famed Italian librettist Pietro Metastasio were performed on London stages. Handel gets top billing in the graphics here, but in fact this Didone Abbandonata is a work by the Italian composer Leonardo Vinci, who died at age 40 in 1730 before his influence was fully appreciated. He was on the stylistic cutting edge, simplifying and honing to directness the ornate opera seria style that Handel, among others, had perfected. Handel's contribution was to revise the work for its London production, a decade after Vinci wrote the work. The added material is not even all by Handel; he incorporated retexted arias by Johann Adolf Hasse, whose style lay somewhere between Vinci's and his own. His aim was not only...
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Add this copy of Leonardo Vinci & G.F. Handel: Didone Abbandonata to cart. $41.89, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by Deutsche Harm Mundi.
